Matt Coffin

Matt Coffin is an internet entrepreneur and investor. He is the founder and was the president of LowerMyBills.com, which was sold to Experian in 2005 for $380 million.[1][2] He was also the president of Experian Online Customer Acquisition Services.

Matt Coffin
EducationBabson College
OccupationEntrepreneur, investor

Life and career

Coffin graduated from Babson College in 1990 and was named to the Alumni Entrepreneur Hall of Fame in 2009 by the Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship.[3] He was an Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of Year award winner in 2007 and Southern California Entrepreneur of the Year in 2006.

Coffin also sat on the Board of Directors for Business.com,[4] which was started by incubator eCompanies, whose venture arm was an early investor in LowerMyBills.com. He also invested in both Buscape, which was sold in October 2009 for $330M,[5] and HauteLook, which was sold to Nordstrom in February 2011 for $270M.[6]

He currently sits on the Board of Directors for eBureau[7] Machinima, and Mahalo.[8][9][10][11]

gollark: Some of them are just weird for reasons other than that, though.
gollark: 4703 somehow *does things* just because the law says it can, even though the law is just a human concept and only affects what humans do.
gollark: Really, one of the main things which makes (some) SCPs weird is that they take convenient abstractions/concepts and turn them into immutable physical laws, while our real universe just runs on... well, physics. 173 is affected by line of sight, even though this is just a thing humans do to reason about... looking at things. 005 is just a magic item which unlocks things, 048 is just a label we assign to things which somehow affects them.
gollark: Alternatively, the machine breaks, if it prefers simple changes - so I guess make it STUPIDLY redundant.
gollark: * didn't happen

References
  1. Suster, Mark (April 19, 2011). "Master Of Customer Acquisition, Matt Coffin, On Startups". Retrieved June 21, 2018.
  2. "Experian Interactive launches with acquisition of LowerMyBills.com - Split Rock Partners, LLC". Split Rock Partners, LLC. May 5, 2005. Retrieved June 21, 2018.
  3. 2009 Honorees, Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship, Babson.edu. Retrieved 2013-10-31
  4. "Business.com".
  5. http://thisweekinstartups.com/tag/lowermybills-com. Thisweekinstartups.com. Retrieved 2011-03-30.
  6. Rao, Leena (2011-17-02). https://techcrunch.com/2011/02/17/nordstrom-acquires-flash-sales-site-hautelook-for-270-million. Techcrunch.com. Retrieved 2011-03-30.
  7. eBureau
  8. "Board of Directors - eBureau".
  10. "Technology Council of Southern California > Home".
  11. Retrieved on 2007-05-16
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